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THE HEART 


OF 

The New Thought 

\ * 


WRITTEN BY 

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 

11 


EIGHTEENTH EDITION 


PUBLISHED BY 

THE LIBRARY SHELF 
850-854 McClurg Building 
Chicago, U. S. A. 








Copyright 1902 by 
The Psychic Research Company, 
Chicago, III. 


Copyright 1910 by 
The Library Shelf 


All Rights Reserved 


486555 

1942 




Notice: This work is protected by Copyright, and simultaneous initial 
publication in United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, France, 
Germany, Russia and other countries. All rights reserved. 







Publishers’ Preface 


This book is noteworthy as an interpretation 
of “New Thought.” 

That which was vague, mystic, unreal, has be¬ 
come, in the hands of Mrs. Wilcox, a lovable 
philosophy of simplest construction. 

The backbone of this philosophy is The Power 
of Right Thought. 

Startling as are some of the tenets expressed, 
they are provably true here and now. 

It is possible that the very simplicity of this 
book will encourage careless criticism from those 
who believe that genius and ambiguity are twin. 

But Mrs. Wilcox is ever the voice of the 
people: what she says is practical; what she 
thinks is clear; what she feels is plain. 

Let the people judge this book. 

Chicago, November, ’02. 


Contents 


Page 

Let the Past Go...*. 5 

The Sowing of the Seed... 8 

Old Clothes. .. 11 

High Noon. 14 

Obstacles..... •. • 17 

Thought Force. 20 

Opulence. 23 

Eternity. 26 

Morning Influences... 28 

The Philosophy of Happiness. 30 

A Worn Out Creed. 33 

Common Sense. 36 

Literature. 40 

Optimism. 42 

Preparation. 46 

Dividends. 49 

Royalty... 63 

Heredity. 65 

Invincibility. 57 

Faces. 58 

The Object of Life... 63 

Wisdom.. 66 

Self-Conquest. 69 

The Important Trifles. 72 

Concentration. 74 

Destiny.. 76 

Sympathy. .. 79 

The Breath. 82 

Generosity.. 85 

Woman’s Opportunity. 88 

Balance. 91 


































THE HEART OF 
THE NEW THOUGHT 


Let the Past Go 

not begin the new year by recount¬ 
ing to yourself or others all your 
losses and sorrows. 

Let the past go. 

Should some good friend pre¬ 
sent you with material for a lovely 
garment, would you insult her by throwing it 
aside and describing the beautiful garments you 
had worn out in past times ? 

The new year has given you the fabric for 
a fresh start in life, why dwell upon the events 
which have gone, the joys, blessings and ad¬ 
vantages of the past! 

Do not tell me it is too late to be successful 
or happy. Do not tell me you are sick or broken 
in spirit, the spirit cannot be sick or broken, 
because it is of God. 

It is your mind which makes your body sick. 
Let the spirit assert itself and demand health 
and hope and happiness in this new year. 

Forget the money you have lost, the mis¬ 
takes you have made, the injuries you have 
received, the disappointments you have 
experienced. 

Real sorrow the sorrow which comes from 





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the death of dear ones, or some great cross well 
borne, you need not forget. But think of these 
things as sent to enrich your nature, and to 
make you more human and sympathetic. You 
are missing them if you permit yourself instead 
to grow melancholy and irritable. 

It is weak and unreasonable to imagine 
destiny has selected you for special suffering. 

Sorrow is no respecter of persons. Say to 
yourself with the beginning of this year that 
you are going to consider all your troubles as an 
education for your mind and soul; and that out 
of the experiences which you have passed 
through you are going to build a noble and 
splendid character, and a successful career. 

Do not tell me you are too old. 

Age is all imagination. Ignore years and 
they will ignore you. 

Eat moderately, and bathe freely in water as 
cold as nature’s rainfall. Exercise thoroughly 
and regularly. 

Be alive, from crown to toe. Breathe deeply, 
filling every cell of the lungs for at least five 
minutes, morning and night, and when you 
draw in long, full breaths, believe you are in¬ 
haling health, wisdom and success. 

Anticipate good health. If it does not come 
at once, consider it a mere temporary delay, 
and continue to expect it. 

Regard any physical ailment as a passing in 5 
convenience, no more. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


7 


Never for an instant believe you are per¬ 
manently ill or disabled. 

The young men of France are studying 
alchemy, hoping to learn the secret of the trans¬ 
mutation of gold. 

If you will study your own spirit and its 
limitless powers, you will gain a greater secret 
than any alchemist ever held; a secret which 
shall give you whatever you desire. 

Think of your body as the silver jewel box, 
your mind as the silk lining, your spirit as the 
gem. Keep the box burnished aud clear of dust, 
but remember always that the jewel within is 
the precious part of it. 

Think of yourself as on the threshold of un¬ 
paralleled success. A whole, clear, glorious year 
lies before you! In a year you can regain 
health, fortune, restfulness, happiness! 

Push on! Achieve, achieve! 




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THE HEART OF 


The Sowing of the Seed 



PHEN you start in the “New Thought” 
do not expect sudden illumination. 
Do not imagine that you are to 
become perfectly well, perfectly 
cheerful, successful, and a healer, 
in a few days. 

Remember all growth is slow. 

Mushrooms spring up in a night, but oaks 
grow with deliberation and endure for centuries. 

Mental and spiritual power must be gained 
by degrees. 

If you attained maturity before you entered 
this field of “New Thought” it is folly to suppose 
a complete transformation of your whole being 
will take place in a week—a month—or a year. 

All you can reasonably look for is a gradual 
improvement, just as you might do if you were 
attempting to take up music or a science. 

The New Thought Is a science, the Science 
of Right Thinking. But the brain cells which 
have been shaped by the old thoughts of despond¬ 
ency and fear, cannot all at once be reformed. 

It will be a case of “Try, try again.” 

Make your daily assertions, “I am love, Health, 


wisdom, cheerfulness, power for good, prosperity, 
success, usefulness, opulence.” 

Never fail to assert these things at least twice 
a day; twenty times is better. But if you do not 
attain to all immediately, if your life does not 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


9 


at once exemplify your words, let it not discour¬ 
age you. 

The saying of the words is the watering of 
the seeds. 

After a time they will begin to sprout, after 
a longer time to cover the barren earth with 
grain, after a still longer time to yield a harvest. 

If you have been accustomed to feeling prej¬ 
udices and dislikes easily, you will not all at 
once find it easy to illustrate your assertion, “I 
am love.’ , If you have indulged yourself in 
thoughts of disease, the old aches and pains will 
intrude even while you say “I am health!” 

If you have groveled in fear and a belief that 
you were born to poverty and failure, courage 
and success and opulence will be of slow growth. 
Yet they will grow and materialize, as surely as 
you insist and persist. 

Declare they are yours, right in the face of 
the worst disasters. There is nothing so confuses 
and flustrates misfortune as to stare it down with 
hopeful unflinching eyes. 

If you waken some morning in the depths of 
despondency and gloom, do not say to yourself: 
“I may as well give up this effort to adopt the 
New Thought—I have made a failure of it evi¬ 
dently- .» Instead sit down quietly, and as¬ 

sert calmly that you are cheerfulness, hope, cour¬ 
age, faith and success. 

Realize that your despondency is only tem¬ 
porary; an old habit, which is reasserting it- 




10 


THE HEART OF 


self, but over which you will gradually gain 
the ascendency. Then go forth into the world 
and busy yourself in some useful occupation, and 
before you know it is on the way, hope will creep 
into your heart, and the gray cloud will lift from 
your mind. Physical pains will loosen their hold, 
and conditions of poverty will change to pros¬ 
perity. 

Your mind is your own to educate and direct. 

You can do it by the aid of the Spirit, but 
you must be satisfied to work slowly. 

Be patient and persistent. 





THE NEW THOUGHT 


11 


Old Clothes 

you go over your wardrobe in the 
spring or fall, do not keep any old, 
useless, or even questionable, gar¬ 
ments, for “fear you might need 
them another year.” 

Give them to the ragman, or 
send them to the county or city poor house. 
There is nothing that will keep you in a rut of 
shabbiness more than clinging to old clothes. 

It is useless to say that you cannot afford 
new garments. 

It is because you have harped upon this idea 
that you are still in straitened circumstances. 

You believe neither in God or yourself. 

Possibly you were brought up to think your¬ 
self a mere worm of earth, born to poverty and 
sorrow. 

If you were, it will of course require a con¬ 
tinued effort to train your mind to the new 
thought, the thought of your divine inheritance 
of all God’s vast universe of wealth. 

But you can do it. 

Begin by giving away your old clothes. There 
may be people, poor relations, or some struggling 
mother of half-clad children, to whom your old 
garments will seem like new raiment, and to 
whom they will bring hope and happiness. 

As a rule, it is not well to give people your 
discarded clothing. 





12 


THE HEART OF 


It has a tendency to lower their self-respect 
and to make them look to you, instead of to 
themselves, for support. 

It all depends upon whom the people are and 
how you do it. 

If you can find employment for them, and 
arouse their hope and self-confidence and ambi¬ 
tion, it is better than carloads of clothing or 
furniture or provisions. 

But little children, suffering from cold, or 
hard-working, over-taxed men and women, will 
not be harmed, and may be temporarily cheered 
and encouraged by your gifts. 

No matter if you still need your frayed-out 
garments—do not keep them. 

Tour thoughts of poverty and trouble have 
impregnated them so that you will continue to 
produce the same despondent mind stuff while 
you wear these garments. 

Get rid of them, and believe that you are to 
soon procure fresh, becoming raiment. 

Rouse all your energies, and go straight ahead 
with that purpose in mind. 

You will be surprised to find how soon the 
opportunity presents itself for you to obtain what 
you need. 

There is new strength, repose of mind and 
Inspiration in fresh apparel. 

God gives Nature new garments every season. 
We are a part of Nature. 

He gives us the qualities and the opportunities 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


13 


to obtain suitable covering for our changing 
needs, if we believe in the one, and use the other. 

When I read of a wealthy man who boasts 
that he has worn one hat seven years, or a woman 
in affluent circumstances who has worn one bon¬ 
net for various seasons, I feel sorry for their ignor¬ 
ance and ashamed of their penuriousness. 

Look at the apple-tree, with its delicate spring 
drapery, its luxurious summer foliage, its autumn 
richness of coloring, its winter draperies of white! 
Surely the Creator did not intend the tree to have 
more variety than man! 

The tree trusts, and grows, and takes storm 
and sun as divinely sent, and believes in its right 
to new apparel, and it comes. 

It will come to you if you do the same. 




14 


THE HEART OF 


High Noon 

VERY woman who passes thirty ought 
to keep her brain, heart and mind 
alive and warm with human sym¬ 
pathy and emotion. She ought to 
interest herself in the lives of others, 
and make her friendship valuable 

to the young. 

She should keep her body supple, and avoid los¬ 
ing the lines of grace: and she should select some 
study or work to occupy her spare hours and to 
lend a zest to the coming years. Every woman 
in the comfortable walks in life can find time for 
such a study. No woman of tact, charm, refine¬ 
ment and feeling need ever let her husband, unless 
she has married a clod, become indifferent or com¬ 
monplace in his treatment of her. Man reflects 
to an astonishing degree woman’s sentiments for 
him. 

Keep sentiment alive in your own heart, 
madam, and in the heart of your husband. If he 
sees that other men admire you he will be more 
alert to the necessity of remaining your lover. 

Take the happy, safe, medium path between 
a gray and a gay life by keeping it radiant and 
bright. Read and think and talk of cheerful, 
hopeful, interesting subj ects. Avoid small gossip, 
and be careful in your criticism of neighbors. 
Sometimes we must criticise, but speak to people 
whose faults you feel a word of counsel may 
amend, not of them to others. 











THE NEW THOUGHT 


15 


Make your life after it reaches its noon,glorious 
with sunlight, rich with harvests, and bright with 
color. Be alive in mind, heart and body. Be 
joyous without giddiness, loving without silliness, 
attractive without being flirtatious, attentive to 
others’ needs without being officious, and instruc¬ 
tive without too great a display of erudition. 

Be a noble, loving, lovable woman. 

It is never too late in life to make a new start. 
No matter how small a beginning may be, it is 
so much begun for a new incarnation if it is cut 
off here by death. 

If I were one hundred years old, and in pos¬ 
session of my faculties, I would not hesitate to 
undertake a new enterprise which offered a hope 
of bettering my condition. 

Thought is eternal in its effects, and every 
hopeful thought which enters the mind sets 
vibrations in motion, which shall help minds 
millions of miles distant and lives yet unborn. 

It is folly to mourn over a failure to provide 
opportunities and luxuries for children. We have 
only to look at the children of the rich, to see 
how little enduring happiness money gives, and 
how seldom great advantages result in great 
characters. The majority of the really great 
people of the world, in all lines of achievement, 
have sprung from poverty. I do not mean from 
pauper homes, but from the homes where only the 
mere necessities of life could be obtained, and 
where early in their youth the children felt it 




16 


THE HEART OF 


necessary to go into the world and make their 
own way. Self-dependence, self-reliance, energy, 
ambition, were all developed in this way. 

How rarely do we find these qualities in the 
children of wealth. How rarely do great phil¬ 
osophers, great statesman, great thinkers and 
great characters develop from the wealthy classes. 

Pauperism—infant labor—the wage-earning 
women—are all evils which ought to be abolished. 
But next to that evil I believe the worst thing 
possible for a human soul is to be born to wealth. 
It is an obstacle to greatness which few are strong 
enough to surmount, and it rarely results in 
happiness to the recipient. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


17 


Obstacles 



'OWEVER great the obstacles between 
you and your goal may be or have 
been, do not lay the blame of your 
failure upon them. 

Other people have succeeded in 
overcoming just as great obstacles. 

Remove such hindrances from the path for 
others, if you can, or tell them a way to go 
around. Even lead them a little distance and 
cheer them on. 

But so far as you yourself are concerned, do 
not stop to excuse any delinquency or half¬ 
heartedness or defeat by the plea of circumstance 
or environment. 

The great nature makes its own environ¬ 
ment, and dominates circumstance. 

It all depends upon the amount of force in 
your own soul. 

While you apply this rule to yourself and 
make no scapegoat of “ fate,” you must have 
consideration for the weakness of others, and 
you must try and better the conditions of the 
world as you go along. 

You are robust and possessed of all your 
limbs. You can mount over the great boulder 
which has fallen in the road to success, and go 
on your way to your goal all the stronger for 
the experience. 

But behind you comes a one-legged man— 






18 


THE HEART OF 


a blind man—a man bowed to the earth with 
a heavy burden, which he cannot lay down. 

It will require weeks, months, years of effort 
on their part to climb over that rock which you 
surmounted in a few hours. 

So it is right and just for you to call other 
strong ones to your aid and roll the boulder 
away or blast it out of the path. 

That is just exactly the way you should think 
of the present industrial conditions. 

In spite of them, the strong, well-poised, 
earnest and determined soul can reach any 
desired success. 

But there are boulders in the road which do 
not belong there, boulders which cause hun¬ 
dreds of the pilgrims who are lame or blind or 
burdened,to fall by the wayside and perish. 

It is your duty to aid in removing these 
obstacles and in making the road a safe and clear 
thoroughfare for all who journey. 

Do not sit down by the roadside and say you 
have been hindered by these difficulties, that is 
to confess yourself weak. 

Do not mount over them and rush to your 
goal and say coldly to the throngs behind you, 
“Oh, everybody can climb over that rock who 
really tries—didn’t I?” That is to announce 
yourself selfish and unsympathetic. 

No doubt the lame, the blind and the 
burdened could attain the goal despite the rocks 
if they were fired by a consciousness of the 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


19 


divine force within them; that consciousness 
can achieve all things under all circumstances. 

But there will always be thousands of pil¬ 
grims toiling wearily toward the goal who have 
not come to this realization. 

If there are unjust, unfair and unkind re¬ 
strictions placed about them, see to it that you 
do all in your power to right what is wrong. 

But never wait to attain your own success 
because of these restrictions or obstacles. 

Believe absolutely in your own God-given 
power to overcome anything and everything. 

Think of yourself as performing miracles 
with God's aid. 

Desire success so intensely that you attract 
it as the magnet attracts the steel. 

Help to adjust things as you go along, but 
never for a moment believe that the lack of 
adjustment can cause you to fail. 




20 


THE HEART OF 




Thought Force 

OUR spirit and mine are both part 
of the stupendous cause. We have 
always been, and always will be. 
First in one form, then in another. 

Every thought, word and deed 
is helping decide your next place 
in the Creator’s magnificent universe. You will 
be beautiful or ugly, wise or ignorant, fortunate 
or unfortunate, according to what use you make 
of yourself here and now. 

Unselfish thoughts, training your mind to de¬ 
sire only universal good, the cultivation of the 
highest attributes, such as love, honesty, grati¬ 
tude, faith, reverence and good will, all mean a 
life of usefulness and happiness in another incar¬ 
nation, as well as satisfaction and self-respect in 
this sphere. 

Even if you escape the immediate results of 
the opposite course of action here, you must face 
the law of cause and effect in the next state. It 
is iu evitable. God, the maker of all things, does 
not change His laws. "As you sow you reap.” 
"As a man thinketh so is he.” There is no "re¬ 
venge” in God’s mind. He simply makes His 
laws, and we work our destinies for good or ill 
according to our adherence to them or violation 
of them. 

Each one of us is a needed part of His great 
plan. Let each soul say: " He has need of me or 






THE NEW THOUGHT 


21 


I would not be. I am here to strengthen the 
plan.” Remember that always in your most dis¬ 
couraged hours. 

The Creator makes no mistakes. 

There is a divine purpose in your being on 
earth. Think of yourself as necessary to the 
great design. It is an inspiring thought. And 
then consider the immensity of the universe and 
how accurately the Maker planned it all. 

Do not associate with pessimists. If you are 
unfortunate enough to be the son or daughter 
husband or wife of one, put cotton (either real 
or spiritual) in your ears, and shut out the poi¬ 
son words of discouragement and despondency. 

No tie of blood or law should compel you to 
listen to what means discomfort and disaster to 
you. 

Get out and away, into the society of optim¬ 
istic people. 

Before you go, insist on saying cheerful, hope¬ 
ful and bright things, sowing the seed, as it were, 
in the mental ground behind you. But do not sit 
down to see it grow. 

Never feel that it is your duty to stay closely 
and continuously in the atmosphere of the 
despondent. 

You might as well think it your duty to stay 
in deep water with one who would not make the 
least effort to swim. 

Get on shore and throw out a life-line, but do 
not remain and be dragged under. 

If you find any one determined to talk failure 




22 


THE HEART OF 


and sickness and misfortune and disaster, walk 
away. 

You would not permit the dearest person on 
earth to administer slow poison to you if you 
knew it. Then why think it your duty to take 
mental potions which paralyze your courage and 
kill your ambition? 

Despondency is one phase of immorality. It 
is blasphemous and an insult to the Creator. 

You are justified in avoiding the people who 
send you from their presence with less hope and 
force and strength to cope with life’s problems 
than when you met them. 

Do what you can to change their current of 
thought. But do not associate intimately with 
them until they have learned to keep silent—at 
least, if they cannot speak hopefully. 

Learn how to walk, how to poise your body, 
how to breathe, how to hold your head, how to 
focus your mind on things of universal import¬ 
ance. Believe your tender, loving thoughts and 
wishes for good to all humanity have power 
to help the struggling souls of earth to rise to 
higher and better conditions. No matter how 
limited your sphere of action may seem to you 
and how small your town appears on the map, 
if you develop your mental and spiritual forces 
through love thoughts you can be a power to move 
the world along. Rise up and realize your strength. 
Not only will you be more useful and happy, but 
you will grow more beautiful and keep your 
youth. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


23 


Opulence 



0 not go through the world talking 
poverty and asking every one you 
| deal with to show you special con¬ 
sideration because you are “poor” 
and ‘unfortunate.” 


If you do this with an idea of 


saving a few dollars here and there, you will 
always have to do it, because you are creating 
poverty conditions by your constant assertions. 

It is a curious fact that the people who are 
always demanding consideration in money mat¬ 
ters demand the best that is going at the same 
time. 

I have known a woman to make a plea for 
cut prices in a boarding house because she was so 
poor, yet she wanted the sunniest room and the 
best location the house afforded. 

It is the charity patients who make the most 
complaint of a physician’s skill or a nurse’s 
attention. 

If you cannot afford to do certain things, or 
buy certain objects, don’t. But when you decide 
you must, decide, too, that you will pay the price, 
and make no whining plea of poverty. 

There are two extremes of people in the world, 
one as distasteful as the other. One is represent¬ 
ed by the man who boasts of the costliness of 
every possession, and invites the whole world to 
behold his opulence and expenditure. 






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THE HEART OF 


His clothes, his house, his servants, his habits, 
seem no different to the observer from his neigh¬ 
bor’s, yet, according to his story, they cost ten 
times the amount. 

The other extreme is the man who dresses 
well, lives well, enjoys all the comforts and 
pleasures of his associates, yet talks poverty con¬ 
tinually, and expects the entire community to 
show him consideration in consequence. 

Another thing to avoid is the role of the chron 
ically injured person. 

We all know him. 

He has a continual grievance. He has been 
cheated, abused, wronged, insulted, disappointed 
and deceived. We wonder how or why he has 
managed to exist, as we listen to the story of his 
troubles. 

No one ever treats him fairly, either in busi¬ 
ness or social life. Everybody is ungrateful, un¬ 
kind, selfish, and he could not be made to believe 
that these experiences were of his own making. 

All of us meet with occasional blows from 
fate, in the form of insults, or ingratitude, or 
trickery from an unexpected source. 

But if we get nothing else but those disappoint* 
ing experiences from life, we may rest assured 
the fault lies somewhere in ourselves. 

We are not sending out the right kind of 
mental stuff, or we would get better returns. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


25 


You never can tell what your thoughts will do 
In bringing you hate or love, 

For thoughts are things, and their airy wings 
Are swift as a carrier dove. 

They follow the law of the universe— 

Each thing must create its kind, 

And they speed o’er the track to bring you back 
Whatever went out from your mind. 

In the main, we must of necessity get from 
humanity what we give to it. If we question our 
ability to win friends or love, people will also 
question it. 

If we doubt our own judgment and discretion 
in business, others will doubt it, and the shrewd 
and unprincipled will take the opportunity given 
by our doubts of ourselves, to spring upon us. 

If in consequence we distrust every person 
we meet, we create an unwholesome and un¬ 
fortunate atmosphere about ourselves, which will 
bring to us the unworthy and deceitful. Stand 
firm in the universe. Believe in yourself. Be¬ 
lieve in others. 

If you make a mistake, consider it only an 
incident. 

If some one wrongs you, cheats, misuses or 
insults you, let it pass as one of the lessons you 
had to learn, but do not imagine that you are 
selected by fate for only such lessons. Keep 
wholesome, hopeful and sympathetic with the 
world at large, whatever individuals may do. 
Expect life to use you better every year, and it 
will not disappoint you in the long run. For life 
is what we make it. 




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THE HEART OF 


Eternity 

® 0 you know what a wonderfully com¬ 
plicated thing a human being is ? 
Every feature, every portion of your 
body, every motion you make, 
reflects your mental organization. 

I know a woman past middle 
life who has always been on the opposite side of 
every question discussed in her presence. 

She was agnostic with the orthodox, reverential 
with atheists, liberal with the narrow, bigoted 
with the liberal. 

Whatever belief any one expressed on any 
subject, she invariably took the other extreme. 
She loved to disagree with her fellow-men. It 
was her pastime. 

Now, to walk with that woman in silence is 
merely to carry on a wordless argument. 

You cannot regulate your steps so they will 
harmonize with hers. She will be just ahead 
or just behind you, and if you want to turn to 
the left, she pulls to the right. A promenade 
with her is more exhausting than a day’s labor. 

She is not conscious of it, and would think 
anyone very unreasonable and unjust who told 
her of her peculiarities. 

I know a woman who all her life has been 
looking afar for happiness and peace and content, 
and has never found any of them, because she did 
not look in her own soul. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


27 


She was a restless girl, and she married, believ¬ 
ing in domestic life lay the goal of her dreams. 
But she was not happy there, and sighed for 
freedom. She wanted to move, and did move, 
once, twice, thrice, to different points of the 
United States. She was discontented with each 
change. She is to-day possessed of all comforts 
and luxuries which life can afford, yet she is the 
same restless soul. She likes to read, but it is 
always the book which she does not possess which 
she craves. If she is in the library with shelves 
book-filled, she goes into the garret and hunts in 
old boxes for a book or a paper which has been 
cast aside. 

If she is in a picture gallery, she wants to go 
to the window and look out on the street, but 
when she is on the street it bores her, and she 
longs to go in the house. 

If a member of the family is absent, she gets 
no enjoyment out of the society of those at home: 
yet when that absent one returns her mind strays 
elsewhere, seeking some imagined happiness not 
found here. 

I wonder if such souls ever find it, even in the 
spirit realm, or if they go on there seeking and 
always seeking something just beyond. It is a 
great gift to learn to enjoy the present—to get 
all there is out of it, and to think of to-day as a 
piece of eternity. Begin now to teach yourself 
this great art if you have not thought of it 
before. To be able to enjoy heaven, one must 
learn first to enjoy earth. 




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THE HEART OF 


Morning Influences 



7 HAT do you think about the very 
first thing in the morning ? 

Your thoughts during the first 
half-hour of the morning will 
greatly influence the entire day. 
You may not realize this, but it is 
nevertheless a fact. 

If you set out with worry, and depression, 
and bitterness of soul toward fate or man, you 
are giving the key note to a day of discords and 
misfortunes. 

If you think peace, hope and happiness, you 
are sounding a note of harmony and success. 

The result may not be felt at once, but it 
will not fail to make itself evident eventually. 

Control your morning thoughts. You can 
do it. 

The first moment on waking, no matter what 
your mood, say to yourself: “I will get all the 
comfort and pleasure possible out of this day, 
and I will do something to add to the measure of 
the world’s happiness or well-being. I will con¬ 
trol myself when tempted to be irritable or un¬ 
happy, I will look for the bright side of every 
event.” 

Once you say these things over to yourself in 
a calm, earnest way, you will begin to feel more 
cheerful. The worries and troubles of the com¬ 
ing day will seem less colossal. 




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Then say: “ I shall be given help to meet 
anything that comes to-day. Everything will be 
for the best. I shall succeed in whatever I 
undertake. I cannot fail.” 

Do not let it discourage you if the moment 
you leave your room you encounter a trouble or 
a disaster. This usually happens. When we 
make any boasts, spiritually or physically, we 
are put to the test. The occult forces about us 
are not unlike human beings. When a school¬ 
boy boasts of his strength, and says he can “ lick 
any boy in school,” he generally gets a chance 
to prove it. 

When we declare we are brave enough to 
overcome any fate, we find our strength put to 
the test at once. 

But that is all right. Prove your words to 
be true. Regard the troubles and cares you en¬ 
counter as the “ punching bags ” of fate, given 
you to develop your spiritual muscle. 

Go at them with courage and keep to your 
morning resolve. 

By and by the troubles will lessen, and you 
will find yourself master of Circumstances. 




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The Philosophy*of Happiness 

HERE are natures born to happiness 
just as there are born musicians, 
mechanics and mathematicians. 

They are usually children who 
came into life under right pre-natal 
conditions. That is, children con¬ 
ceived and born in love. 

The mother who thanks God for the little life 
she is about to bring to earth, gives her child a 
more blessed endowment than if it were heir to 
a kingdom or a fortune. 

As the majority of people, however, born 
under “civilized” conditions, are unwelcome to 
their mothers, it is rarely we encounter one who 
has a birthright of happiness. 

Youth possesses a certain buoyancy and ex¬ 
hilaration which passes for happiness, until the 
real disposition of the individual asserts itself 
with the passing of time. 

Good health and strong vitality are great aids 
to happiness; yet that they, wealth and honors 
added, do not produce that much desired state 
of mind we have but to look about us to observe. 

One who is not born a musician needs to toil 
more assiduously to acquire skill in the art, how¬ 
ever strong his desire or great his taste, than the 
natural genius. 

So the man not endowed with joyous im¬ 
pulses needs to set himself the task of acquiring 





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31 


the habit of happiness. I believe it can be done. 
To the sad or restless or discontented being I 
would say: Begin each morning by resolving to 
find something in the day to enjoy. Look in each 
experience which comes to you for some grain of 
happiness. You will be surprised to find how 
much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable 
possesses either an instructive or an amusing 
side. 

There is a certain happiness to be found in 
the most disagreeable duty when you stop to 
realize that you are getting it out of the way. 

If it is one of those duties which has the un¬ 
comfortable habit of repeating itself continually, 
you can at least say you are learning patience 
and perseverance, which are two great virtues 
and essential to any permanent happiness in life. 

Do not anticipate the happiness of to-morrow, 
but discover it in to-day. Unless you are in the 
profound depths of some great sorrow, you will 
find it if you look for it. 

Think of yourself each morning as an explorer 
in a new realm. I know a man whose time is 
gold, and he carefully arranged his plans to take 
three hours for a certain pleasure. He lost his 
way and missed his pleasure, but was full of exu¬ 
berant delight over his “new experience.” “I 
saw places and met with adventures I might have 
missed my whole life.” He was a true philos¬ 
opher and optimist and such a man gets the very 
kernel out of the nut of life. 




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I know a woman who had since her birth 
every material blessing, health, wealth, position, 
travel and a luxurious home. She was forever 
complaining of the cares and responsibilities of 
the latter. Finally she prevailed upon the family 
to rent the home for a series of years and to live 
in hotels. Now she goes about posing as a mar¬ 
tyr, “a homeless woman.” It is impossible for 
such a selfishly perverted nature to know happi¬ 
ness. 

A child should be taught from its earliest life 
to find entertainment in every kind of condition 
or weather. If it hears its elders cursing and 
bemoaning a rainy day the child’s plastic mind 
is quick to receive the impression that a rainy 
day is a disaster. 

How much better to expatiate in its presence 
on the blessing of rain, and to teach it the 
enjoyment of all nature’s varying moods, which 
other young animals feel. 

Happiness must come from within in order to 
respond to that which comes from without, just 
as there must be a musical ear and temperament 
to enjoy music. 

Cultivate happiness as an art or science. 




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33 


A Worn Out Creed 



have a letter from an “‘orthodox 
Christian,” who says the only hope 
for humanity lies in the “old- 
fashioned religion.” 

Then he proceeds to tell me 
how carefully he has studied hu¬ 
man nature, “in business, in social life, and in 
himself,” and that he finds it all vile—selfish- 
sinful. 

Of course he does, because he studies it from 
a false and harmful standpoint, and looks for 
“the worm of earth” and “the poor, miserable 


sinner,” instead of the divine man . 

We find what we look for in this world. 

I have always been looking for the noble 
qualities in human beings, and I have found them. 

There are great souls all along the highway 
of life, and there are great qualities even in 
the people who seem common and weak to us 
ordinarily. 

One of the grandest souls I know is a man 
who served his term in prison for sins committed 
while in drink. 

He was not “born bad”, he simply drifted 
into bad company and formed bad habits. 

He paid the awful penalty of five years behind 
prison bars, but the divine man within him 
asserted itself, and today I have no friend I feel 
prouder to call that name. 




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Mr. John L. Tait, secretary of the Central 
Howard Association, of Chicago, writes me regard¬ 
ing his knowledge of ex-convicts: 

According to my experience with a number of 
men of this class during the last two years, more 
than 90 per cent of them are worthy of the most 
cordial support and assistance. 

If this can be said of men who have been 
criminals, surely humanity is not so vile as my 
“orthodox” correspondent would have me believe. 

A “Christian” of that order ought to be put 
under restraint, and not allowed to associate with 
mankind. 

He carries a moral malaria with him, which 
poisons the air. 

He suggests evil to minds which have not 
thought it. 

He is a dangerous hypnotist, while pretending 
to be a disciple of Christ. 

The man who believes that all men are 
vicious, selfish and immoral is projecting perni¬ 
cious mind stuff into space, which is as dangerous 
to the peace of the community as dynamite bombs* 

The world has been kept back too long*by this 
false, unholy and blasphemous “religion.” 

It is not the religion of Christ—it is the 
religion of ignorant translators, ignorant readers. 

Thank God, its supremacy is past. A whole¬ 
some and holy religion has taken its place with 
the intelligent progressive minds of the day, 
a religion which says: “I am all goodness, love. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


35 


truth, mercy, health. I am a necessary part of 
God’s universe. I am a divine soul, and only 
good can come through me or to me. God made 
me, and He could make nothing but goodness 
and purity and worth. I am the reflection of all 
His qualities.” 

This is the “new” religion; yet it is older than 
the universe. It is God’s own thought put into 
practical form. 




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Common Sense 



F you are suffering from physical 
ills, ask yourself if it is not your 
own fault. 

There is scarcely one person in 
one hundred who does not over 
eat or drink. 

I know an entire family who complain of 
gastric troubles, yet who keep the coffee pot con¬ 
tinually on the range and drink large quantities 
of that beverage at least twice a day. 

No one can be well who does that. Almost 
every human ailment can be traced to foolish 
diet. 

Eat only two meals in twenty-four hours. If 
you are not engaged in active physical labor, 
make it one meal. Drink two or three or four 
quarts of milk at intervals during the day to 
supply good blood to the system. 

You will thrive upon it, and you will not 
miss the other two meals after the first week. 

And your ailments will gradually disappear. 

Meantime, if you are self-supporting, your 
bank account will increase. 

Think of the waste of money which goes into 
indigestible food ! It is appalling when you con¬ 
sider it. Heaven speed the time when men and 
women find out how little money it requires to 
sustain the body in good health and keep the 
brain clear and the eye bright 1 




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87 


The heavy drinker is to-day looked upon with 
pity and scorn. The time will come when the 
heavy eater will be similarly regarded. 

Once find the delight of a simple diet, the 
benefit to body and mind and purse, and life will 
assume new interest, and toil will be robbed of 
its drudgery, for it will cease to be a mere 
matter of toiling for a bare existence. 

Again, are you unhappy ? Stop and ask 
yourself why. If you have a great sorrow, time 
will be your consoler. And there is an ennobl¬ 
ing and enriching effect of sorrow well borne. 

It is the education of the soul. But if you 
are unhappy over petty worries and trials, you 
are wearing yourself to no avail; and if you are 
allowing small things to irritate and harass you 
and to spoil the beautiful days for you, take 
yourself in hand and change your ways. 

You can do it if you choose. It is pitiful to 
observe what sort of troubles most unhappy 
people are afflicted with. I have seen a beauti¬ 
ful young woman grow care lined and faded just 
from imagining she was being “slighted” or 
neglected by her acquaintances. 

Some one nodded coldly to her, another one 
spoke superciliously, a third failed to invite her, 
a fourth did not pay her a call, and so on— 
always a grievance to relate until one is pre¬ 
pared to look sympathetic at sight of her. 

And such petty, petty grievances for this 
great, good life to be marred by! 




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THE HEART OF 


And all the result of her own disposition. 
Had she chosen to look for appreciation and 
attention and good will she would have found it 
everywhere. 

Then, about your temper ? Is it flying loose 
over a trifle ? Are you making yourself and 
every one else wretched if a chair is out of 
place, or a meal a moment late, or some mem¬ 
ber of the family is tardy at dinner, or your shoe 
string is in a tangle or your collar button mis¬ 
laid? 

Do you go to pieces nervously if you are 
obliged to repeat a remark to some one who did 
not understand you? I have known a home to 
be ruined by just such infinitesimal annoyances. 
It is a habit, like the drug or alcohol habit— 
this irritability. 

All you need do is to stop it. Keep your 
voice from rising, and speak slowly and calmly 
when you feel yourself giving way to it. Realize 
how ridiculous and disagreeable you will be if 
you continue, what an unlovely and hideous old 
age you are preparing for yourself. And realize 
that a loose temper is a sign of vulgarity and 
lack of culture. 

Think of the value of each day of life, how 
much it means and what possibilities of happi¬ 
ness and usefulness it contains if well spent. 

But if you stuff yourself like an anaconda, 
dwell on the small worries and grow angry at 
the least trifle, you are committing as great and 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


39 


inexcusable a folly as if you flung your furniture 
and garments and food and fuel into the sea in a 
spirit of wanton cruelty. You are wasting life 
for nothing. Every sick, gloomy day you pass is 
a sin against life. Get health, be cheerful, keep 
calm. 

Clear your mind of every gloomy, selfish 
angry or revengeful thought. Allow no resent¬ 
ment or grudge toward man or fate to stay in 
your heart over night. 

Wake in the morning with a blessing for 
every living thing on your lips and in your soul. 
Say to yourself: “ Health, luck, usefulness, suc¬ 

cess, are mine. I claim them.” Keep thinking 
that thought, no matter what happens, just as 
you would put one foot before another if you had 
a mountain to climb. Keep on, keep on, and 
suddenly you will find you are on the heights” 
luck beside you. 

Whoever follows this recipe cannot fail of 
happiness, good fortune and a useful life. But 
saying the words over once and then drifting back 
to anger, selfishness, revenge and gloom will do 
no good. 

The words must be said over and over, and 
thought and lived when not said. 




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THE HEART OF 


Literature 



3HE world is full of “New Thought” 
Literature. It is helpful and in¬ 
spiring to read. 

It is worth many dollars to any 
one who will live its philosophy. 

I talked to a man who has 
been studying along these lines for some years. 

“Oh, I know all that philosophy,” he said; 
“it is nothing new. I am perfectly familiar 
with it.” 

Yet this man was continually allowing himself 
to grow angry over the least trifle; he was quick 
to see and speak of the faults in others; he was 
demanding more of those he associated with in 
the way of consideration and justice than he was 
willing to give, and he was untidy in his person 
and improvident in his use of money. 

Now it is the merest waste of time for this man 
to read “New Thought” literature or practice 
“deep breathing”, since he will not put into 
daily and hourly practice what is taught by the 
New Religion. 

He is like the orthodox Christian who mum¬ 
bles through the Lord’s Prayer and then goes 
forth to do exactly as he would not be done by 
in business, social and domestic life. 

Man is what he thinks. Not what he says, 
reads or hears. By persistent thinking you can 
undo any condition which exists. You can free 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


41 


yourself from any chains, whether of poverty, sin, 
ill health or unhappiness. If you have been 
thinking these thoughts half a lifetime you must 
not expect to batter down the walls you have built, 
in a week, or a month, or a year. You must 
work and wait, and grow discouraged and stumble 
and pick yourself up and go on again. 

You cannot in an hour gain control over a 
temper which you have let fly loose for twenty 
years. But you can control it eventually, and 
learn to think of a burst of anger as a vulgarity 
like drunkenness or profanity, something you 
could not descend to. 

If you have allowed yourself to think despond¬ 
ent thoughts and believe that poverty and sick¬ 
ness were your portion for years, it will take time 
to train your mind to more cheerful and hopeful 
ideas; but you can do it by repeated assertions 
and by reading and thinking and living the beau¬ 
tiful New Thought Philosophy. 




42 


THE HEART OF 


Optimism 

N OT long ago I read the following 
gloomy bit of pessimism from the 
pen of a man bright enough to 
know better than to add to the 
mental malaria of the world. He 
said: 

Life is a hopeless battle in which we are fore¬ 
doomed to defeat. And the prize for which we 
strive “ to have and to h Id ”—what is it ? A 
thing that is neither enjoyed while had, nor 
missed when lost. So worthless it is, so unsatis¬ 
fying, so inadequate to purpose, so false to hope 
and at its best so brief, that for consolation and 
compensation we set up fantastic faiths of an 
aftertime in a better world from which no con¬ 
firming whisper har ever reached us out of the 
void. Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips 
of despair, but Hell is an inference from history. 

This is morbid and unwholesome talk which 
can do no human being any good to utter, or 
listen to. 

But it can depress and discourage the weak 
and struggling souls, who are striving to make 
the best of circumstances, and it can nerve to 
suicide the hand of some half-crazed being, who 
needed only a word of encouragement and cheer 
to brace up and win the race. 

This is the unpardonable sin—to talk dis- 
couragingly to human souls, hungering for hope. 

When the man without brains does it, he can 
be pardoned for knowing no better. 





THE NEW THOUGHT 


43 


When the man with brains does it, he should 
be ashamed to look his fellow mortals in the 
eyes. 

It is a sin ten times deeper dyed than giving 
a stone to those who ask for bread. 

It is giving poison to those who plead for a 
cup of cold water. 

Fortunately the remarks above quoted con¬ 
tain not one atom of truth ! 

The writer may speak for himself, but he has 
no right to speak for others. 

It is all very well for a man who is marked 
with smallpox to say his face has not one 
unscarred inch on the suilajo of it. But he has 
no premises to stand upon when he says there is 
not a face in the world which is free from small¬ 
pox scars. 

Life is not “a hopeless battle in which we 
are doomed to defeat.” 

Life is a glorious privilege, and we can make 
anything we choose of it, if we begin early and 
are in deep earnest, and realize our own divine 
powers. 

Nothing can hinder us or stay us. We can 
do and be whatsoever we will. 

The prize of life is not “a thing which is 
neither enjoyed while had nor missed when lost.” 

It is enjoyed by millions of souls to-day—this 
great prize of life. I for one declare that for 
everyday of misery in my existence I have had a 
week of joy and happiness. For every hour of 




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THE HEART OF 


pain, I have had a day of pleasure. For every 
moment of worry, an hour of content. 

I cannot be the only soul so endowed with the 
appreciation of life! I know scores of happy 
people who enjoy the many delights of earth, 
and there are thousands whom I do not know. 

Of course “life is not missed when lost”— 
because it is never lost. It is indestructible. 

Life ever was, and ever will be. It is a 
continuous performance. 

It is not “worthless” to the wholesome, normal 
mind. It is full of interest, and rich with oppor¬ 
tunities for usefulness. 

When any man says his life is worthless, it is 
because he has eyes and sees not, and ears and 
hears not. 

It is his own fault, not the fault of God, fate 
or accident. 

If every life seems at times “unsatisfactory” 
and “inadequate” it is only due to the cry of the 
immortal soul longing for larger opportunities 
and fewer limitations. 

Neither is life “false to hope.” He who 
trusts the divine Source of Life, shall find his 
hopes more than realized here upon earth. I but 
voice the knowledge of thousands of souls, when 
I make this assertion. I know whereof I speak. 

All that our dearest hopes desire will come to 
us, if we believe in ourselves as rightful heirs to 
Divine Opulence, and work and think always on 
those lines. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


45 


If “no whisper has ever reached us out of the 
void” confirming our faith in immortality, then 
one-third of the seemingly intelligent and sane 
beings of our acquaintance must be fools or liars. 
For we have the assertion of fully this number 
that such whispers have come, besides the 
Biblical statistics of numerous messages from the 
other realm. “As it was in the beginning, is now 
and shall be ever more, world without end, Amen.” 




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THE HEART OF 


Preparation 

VERY day I hear middle-aged people 
bemoaning the fact that they were 
not given advantages or did not 
seize the opportunities for an edu¬ 
cation in early youth. 

They believe that their lives 
would be happier, better and more useful had an 
education been obtained. 

Scarcely one of these people realizes that 
middle life is the schooltime for old age, and that 
just as important an opportunity is being missed 
or ignored day by day for the storing up of valu¬ 
able knowledge which will be of great import¬ 
ance in rendering old age endurable. 

Youth is the season to acquirek nowledge, 
middle life is the time to acquire wisdom. 

Old age is the season to enjoy both, but wis¬ 
dom is far the more important of the two. 

By wisdom I mean the philosophy which 
enables us to control our tempers, curb our 
tendency to severe criticism, and cultivate our 
sympathies. 

The majority of people after thirty-five con- 
sidei themselves privileged to be cross, irritable, 
critical and severe, because they have lived long¬ 
er than the young, because they have had more 
trials and disappointments, and because they 
believe they understand the world better. 

Those are excellent reasons why they should 
be patient, kind, broad and sympathetic. 







THE NEW THOUGHT 


47 


The longer we live the more we should real¬ 
ize the folly and vulgarity of ill-temper, the 
cruelty of severe criticism and the necessity for 
a broad-minded view of life, manners, morals 
and customs. 

Unless we adapt ourselves to the changing 
habits of the world, unless we adopt some of the 
new ideas that are constantly coming to the 
front, we will find ourselves carping, disagree¬ 
able and lonely old people as the years go by. 

The world will not stand still for us. Society 
will not wear the same clothes or follow the 
same pleasures, or think the same thoughts 
when we are eighty that were prevalent when 
we were thirty. We must keep moving with 
the world or stand still and solitary. 

After thirty we must seize every hour and 
educate ourselves to grow into agreeable old age. 

It requires at least twenty years to become 
well educated in book and college lore. If we 
begin to study at seven we are rarely through 
with all our common schools, seminaries, high 
schools and colleges have to offer under a score 
of years. 

The education for old age needs fully as 
many years. We need to begin at thirty to be 
tolerant, patient, serene, trustful, sympathetic 
and liberal. Then, at fifty, we may hope to have 
“graduated with honors” from life’s school of 
wisdom, and to be prepared for another score or 
two of years of usefulness and enjoyment in the 
practice of these qualities. 




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THE HEART OF 


Instead of wasting onr time in bemoaning 
tbe loss of early opportunities for obtaining an 
education, let us devote ourselves to the cultiva¬ 
tion of wisdom, since that is free to all who pos¬ 
sess self-control, will power, faith and persever¬ 
ance. 

Begin to-day, at home. Be more tolerant 
of the faults of the other members of your house¬ 
hold. Restrain your criticisms on the conduct 
of your neighbors. 

Try and realize the causes which led some 
people who have gone wrong to err. Look for 
the admirable qualities in every one you meet. 
Sympathize with the world. Be interested in 
progress, be interested in the young. Keep in 
touch with each new generation, and do not 
allow yourself to grow old in thought or feeling. 

Educate yourself for a charming old age. 
There is no time to lose. 




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49 


Dividends 

UR thoughts are shaping unmade 
spheres, 

And, like a blessing or a curse, 
They thunder down the formless 
years 

And ring throughout the universe. 

The more we realize the tremendous responsi¬ 
bility of our mental emanations the better for the 
world and ourselves. The sooner we teach little 
children what a mighty truth lies in the Bible 
phrase “As a man thinketh, so is he,” the better 
for future generations. 

If a man thinks sickness, poverty and misfor¬ 
tune, he will meet them and claim them all 
eventually as his own. But he will not acknowl¬ 
edge the close relationship, he will deny his 
own children and declare they were sent to him 
by an evil fate. 

Walter Atkinson tells us that “he who hates 
is an assassin.” 

Every kindergarten and public school teacher 
ought to embody this idea in the daily lessons for 
children. 

It may not be possible to teach a child to 
“love every neighbor as himself,” for that is the 
most difficult of Commandments to follow to the 
letter; but it is possible to eliminate hatred from 
a nature if we awaken sympathy for the object 
of dislike. 





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THE HEART OF 


That which we pity we cannot hate. The 
wonderful Intelligence which set this superb 
system of worlds in action must have been inspired 
by love for all it created. 

So much grandeur and magnificence, so 
much perfection of detail, could only spring 
from Love. 

Whatever is out of harmony in our little 
world has been caused by man’s substituting hate 
and fear for love and faith. 

Every time we allow either hate or fear to 
dominate our minds we disarrange the order of 
the universe and make trouble for humanity, 
and ourselves. 

It may be a little late in reaching us, but it 
is sure to come back to the Mind which sent 
forth the cause. 

Every time we entertain thoughts of love, 
Sympathy, forgiveness and faith we add to the 
well-being of the world, and create fortunate 
and successful conditions for ourselves. 

Those, too, may be late in coming to us— 
BUT THEY WILL COME. 

Right thinking is not attained in a day or a 
week. 

We must train the mind to reject the brood 
of despondent, resentful, fearful and prejudiced 
thoughts which approach it, and to invite 
and entertain cheerful, broad and wholesome 
thoughts instead, just as we overcome false tones 
and cultivate musical ones in educating the 
voice for singing. 





THE NEW THOUGHT 


51 


When we once realize that by driving away 
pessimistic, angry and bitter thoughts we drive 
away sickness and misfortune to a great extent, 
and that by seeking the kinder and happier 
frame of mind we seek at the same time success 
and health and good luck, we will find a new 
impetus in the control of our mental forces. 

For we all love to be paid for our worthy 
deeds, even while we believe in being good for 
good’s sake only. And nothing in life is surer 
than this: 

RIGHT THINKING PAYS LARGE DIVI¬ 
DENDS. 

Think success, prosperity, usefulness. It is 
much more profitable than thinking self-destruc¬ 
tion or the effort at self - destruction for 
that is an act which aims at an impossibility. 
You can destroy the body, but the you who suffers 
in mind and spirit will suffer still, and live still. 
You will only change your location from one 
state to another. You did not make yourself, 
you cannot unmake yourself. You can merely 
put yourself among the spiritual tramps who 
hang about the earth’s borders, because they 
have not prepared a better place for themselves. 

Suicide is cheap, vulgar and cowardly. 
Because you have made a wreck of a portion of 
this life, do not make a wreck of the next. 

Mend up your broken life here, go along 
bravely and with sympathy and love in your heart, 
determined to help everybody you can, and to 




52 


THE HEART OF 


better your condition as soon as possible. Men 
have done this after fifty, and lived thirty good 
years to enjoy the results. 

Do not feel hurt by the people who slight you, 
or who refer to your erring past. Be sorry for 
them. I would rather be a tender-hearted 
reformed sinner than a hard-hearted model of 
good behavior. 

I would rather learn sympathy through sin 
than never learn it at all. 

There is nothing we cannot live down, and 
rise above, and overcome. There is nothing we 
cannot be in the way of nobility and worth. 




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53 


Royalty 

E get what we give. I have never 
known this rule to fail in the 
long run. If we give sympathy, 
appreciation, goodwill, charitable 
thoughts, admiration and love— 
we receive all these back from 
humanity in time. 

We may bestow them unworthily, as the 
sower of good seed may cast it on a rocky surface; 
but the winds of heaven will scatter it broadcast, 
and, while the rock remains barren, the fields 
shall yield a golden harvest. 

The seed must he good , however. 

If I say to myself without any real regard for 
another in my heart, “I want that person to like 
me, I will do all in my power to please him,” 
I need not be surprised if my efforts fail or prove 
of only temporary efficacy. 

Neither need I feel surprised or pained if I find 
by-and-by that other people are bestowing policy 
friendship upon me, actions with no feeling for 
a foundation. 

No matter how kind and useful I make my 
conduct toward an individual, if in my secret 
heart I am criticising him severely and condemn¬ 
ing him, I must expect criticism and condem¬ 
nation from others as my portion. 

We reap what we sow. Some harvests are 
longer in growing than others, but they all grow 
in time. 






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Servility in love, or friendship, or duty, is 
never commendable. I do not believe God Him¬ 
self feels complimented when the beings He 
created as the highest type of His workmanship 
declare themselves worthless worms, unworthy 
of His regard! 

We are heirs of God’s kingdom, and rightful 
inheritors of happiness, and health, and success. 
What monarch would feel pleasure in having his 
children crawl in the dust, saying, “We are less 
than nothing, miserable, unworthy creatures ? ” 

Would he not prefer to hear them say, 
proudly: “We are of royal blood” ? 

We ought always to believe in our best selves, 
in our right to love and be loved, to give and 
receive happiness, and to toil and be rewarded. 
And then we should bestow our love, our gifts 
and our toil with no anxious thought about the 
returns. If we chance to love a loveless indi¬ 
vidual, to give to one bankrupt in gratitude, 
to toil for the unappreciative, it is but a tem¬ 
porary deprivation for us. The love, the 
gratitude and the recompense will all come to 
us in time from some source, or many sources. 
It cannot fail. 




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55 


Heredity 

A MERICAN parents, as a rule, can be 
put in two extreme classes, those 
who render the children insuffer- 
ably conceited and unbearable by 
overestimating their abilities and 
overpraising their achievements, 
and those who render them morbid and self-de¬ 
preciating by a lack of wholesome praise. 

It is rare indeed, when we find parents wise 
and sensible enough to strengthen the best that 
is in their children by discreet praise, and at the 
same time to control the undesirable qualities by 
judicious and kind criticism. 

I heard a grandmother not long ago telling 
callers in the presence of a small boy what a 
naughty, bad child he was, and how impossible 
it seemed to make him mind. Wretched seed to 
sow in the little mind, and the harvest is sure 
to be sorrow. 

I have heard parents and older children 
expatiate on the one stupid trait and the one 
plain feature of a bright and handsome child, 
intending to keep it from forming too good an 
opinion of itself. 

To all young people I would say, cultivate 
a belief in yourself. Base it on self-respect and 
confidence in God’s love for his own handiwork. 
Say to yourself, “I will be what I will to be.” 
Not because your human will is all-powerful, 




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but because the Divine will is back of you. 
Analyze your own abilities and find what you 
are best fitted to do. 

Then set about the task of doing your chosen 
work to the very best of your ability, and do not 
for an instant doubt your own capabilities. 
Perhaps they may be dwarfed and enfeebled by 
years of morbid thought; but if you persist in a 
self-respecting and self-reliant and God-trusting 
course of thinking your powers will increase and 
your capabilities strengthen. 

It is no easy matter to overcome a habit of 
self-depreciation. 

It is like straightening out a limb which has 
been twisted by a false attitude or correcting a 
habit of sitting round-shouldered. 

It requires a steady and persistent effort. 
When the depressing and doubtful thoughts 
come drive them away like malaria-breeding 
insects. Say, “ This is not complimentary to my 
Maker. I am His work. I must be worthy of 
my own respect and of that of others. I must 
and will succeed.” 




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57 


Invincibility 


F we persistently desire good things 
to come to us for unselfish pur¬ 
poses, and at the same time faith¬ 
fully perform the duties which 
lie nearest, we will eventually find 
our desires being realized in the 
most unexpected manner. 

Our thought force has proved to be a wedge, 
opening the seemingly inaccessible Wall of Cir¬ 



cumstance. 

To read good books, to think and ponder on 
what you read, to cultivate every agreeable 
quality you observe in others, and to weed from 
your nature every unworthy and disagreeable 
trait, to study humanity with an idea of being 
helpful and sympathetic, all these efforts will help 
you to the ultimate attainment of your wishes. 

It is a proven fact that if we devote a few 
moments each day to reaching exercises, stand¬ 
ing with loose garments and stretching the body 
muscles to reach some point above us, we 
increase our stature. 

Just so if we mentally and spiritually are 
continually reaching to a higher plane we are 


growing. 

Every least thought of the brain is a chisel, 
chipping away at our characters, and our char¬ 
acters are building our destinies. 

The incessant and persistent demand of our 
hearts and minds MUST be granted. 




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That Mental Chisel 

^RING a Volley ride through a thrifty 
U/1 New England locality,where church 

spires were almost as plentiful as 
trees, I studied the faces of the 
people who came into the car dur¬ 
ing my two hours’ journey. 

The day was beautiful, and all along the route 
our numbers were recruited by bevies of women, 
young, middle aged and old, who were bent on 
shopping expeditions or setting forth to make 
social calls. 

They went and came at each village through 
which our coach of democracy passed, and they 
represented all classes. 

The young girls were lovely, as young girls 
are the world over: their complexion possessed 
that soft tender luster, peculiar to seashore 
localities, for the salty breath of Father Neptune 
is the greatest of cosmetics. Many of the young 
faces were formed in classic mould, their features 
clearly cut and refined, and severe, like the 
thoughts and principles of their ancestors. 

Often I observed a mother and some female 
relative, presumably an aunt, in company with 
a young relative; and always the sharpening 
and withering process of the years of set and 
unelastic thought was discernible upon their 
faces, which had once been young, and classic 
and attractive. 






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59 


In the entire two hours I saw but three 
lovely faces which were matured by time. 

I saw scores of well-dressed and evidently 
well-cared-for women of middle age, whose 
countenances were furrowed, drawn, pinched, 
sallow, and worn, beyond excuse; for time, sor¬ 
row, and sickness are not plausible excuses for 
such ravages upon a face God drew in lines of 
beauty. 

Time should mature a woman’s beauty as it 
does that of a tree. Sorrow should glorify it as 
does the frost the tree, and sickness should not 
be allowed to lay a lingering touch upon it, until 
death calls the spirit away. 

Without question the great majority of the 
women I saw were earnest orthodox Christians. 

I heard snatches of conversation regarding 
Church and Charities and I have no doubt that 
each woman among them believed herself to be 
a disciple of Christ. 

Yet where was the result of the loving, tender, 
sweet spirit of Christ’s teaching ? 

It surely was not visible upon those pinched 
and worried faces ? and those faces were certain 
and truthful chronicles of the work done by 
the minds within. 

One face said to me in every line, “I talk 
about God’s goodness and loving-kindness, but I 
worry over the dust in the spare room, I fret 
about our expenses, I am troubled about my 
lungs, and I fear my husband has an unregener¬ 
ate heart. I never know an hour’s peace, for 




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even in my sleep, I worry, worry, worry, but of 
course I know I will be saved by the blood of 
Christ! ” 

Another said, “I am in God’s fold, well and 
safe, but I hate and despise my nearest neighbor, 
for she wears clothes that I am sure she cannot 
pay for, and her children are always dressed 
better than mine. I quarrel with my domestics, 
and am always in trouble of some kind, just 
because human beings are so full of sin and no 
one but myself is ever right. I shall be so glad 
to leave this world of woe and go to heaven, but 
I hope I will not meet many of my present 
acquaintances there! ” 

Another said, “ If I only had good health— 
but I was born to sickness and suffering, and it 
is God’s will that I should suffer ! ” 

Oh the pity of it, and to imagine this is 
religion! 

Thank God the wave of “New Thought” is 
sweeping over the land, and washing away those 
old blasphemous errors of mistaken creeds. 

The “New Thought” is to give us a new 
race of beautiful middle-aged and old people. 

To-day in any part of the land among rich, 
poor, ignorant or intellectual, orthodox or mater¬ 
ialists the beautiful mature face is rarer than a 
white blackbird in the woods. 

It is impossible to be plain, ugly, or uninter¬ 
esting in late life, if the mind keeps itself occu¬ 
pied with right thinking. 

The withered and drawn face of fifty indi- 




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61 


cates withered emotions and drawn and perverted 
ambitions. 

The dried and sallow face tells its story of 
dried up sympathies and hopes. 

The furrowed face tells of acid cares eating 
into the heart. 

All this is irreligious! yet all this prevails 
extensively in our most conservative and churchy 
communities. 

He who in truth trusts God cannot worry. 

He who loves God and mankind, cannot 
become dried and withered at fifty, for love will 
re-create his blood, and renew the fires of his 
eye. 

He who understands his own divine nature 
will grow more beautiful with the passing of 
time, for the God within will become each year 
more visible. 

The really reverent soul accepts its sorrows 
as blessings in disguise, and he who so accepts 
them is beautified and glorified by them, within 
and without. 

Are you growing more attractive as you 
advance in life? Is your eye softer and deeper, 
is your mouth kinder, your expression more 
sympathetic, or are you screwing up your face 
in tense knots of worry? Are your eyes growing 
hopeless and dull, is your mouth drooping at the 
corners, and becoming a set thin line in the 
centre, and is your skin dry, and sallow, and 
parched? 




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Study yourself and answer these questions to 
your own soul, for in the answer depends the 
decision whether you really love and trust God, 
and believe in your own immortal spirit, or 
whether you are a mere impostor in the court of 
faith. 




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63 


The Object of Life 

HAT do you believe to be the object 
of your life? 

To be happy and successful, per¬ 
haps you are thinking, even if you 
do not answer in those words. 
That is the idea of the many. 
Meanwhile others, who have been educated in the 
melancholy faith of their ancestors, believe the 
object of this life is to be miserable, poor, and 
full of sorrow, that they may wear a crown of 
glory hereafter. 

But the clear thinker and careful observer 
must realize that there is one and only one main 
object in life —the building of character. 

He who sets out in early youth with that 
ambition and purpose, and keeps to it, will not 
only attain his object, but he will, too, attain 
happiness and true success—for there is no such 
thing as failure for the man or woman of char¬ 
acter. 

We often apply the two words character and 
success, unworthily. 

We speak of a man of “much character” 
when he is merely self-assertive and stubborn, 
and we call a man successful, who has accumu¬ 
lated a fortune, or achieved fame and a position, 
by doubtful methods. 

Then what is character, and what is success ? 

Character is the result of the cultivation of 





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THE HEART OF 


the highest and noblest qualities in human 
nature, and putting those qualities to practical 
use. 

Success is the conquest of the lower and baser 
self, and the ability to be useful to one's fellow 
men. 

There are men of brain, wealth and position 
who are failures, and there are men of limited 
abilities and in humble places who are yet suc¬ 
cessful, inasmuch as they make the utmost of 
themselves, and their opportunities. 

It makes no difference how lowly your sphere 
in life may be, and no matter how limited your 
environment, you can build your character if 
you will. You need no outlay of money, no 
assistance from those in power, no influence. 

Character Building must be done alone, and 
by yourself. The ground must be cleansed of 
debris, and the structure must be erected stone 
by stone. 

It is dull, slow, hard work, especially the 
preparation. 

All preparation is drudgery. 

When this little whirling globe of ours began 
to cool in space think what a task lay before it! 
Think of the mass of chaos, which had to slowly 
shape itself into mighty, green, glad and snow¬ 
capped mountains, fertile vales, and noble forests. 

Each one of us is a little world, whirling 
alone on an individual orbit, but the divine 
power is within us, to grow into symmetry, 
beauty, and perfection if we only realize it. 




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65 


And the happiness of the work, once we begin 
it, is beyond the power of description. 

There is no other satisfaction can compare 
with that of looking back across the years and 
finding that you have grown in self-control, in 
charity of judgment, in a sense of justice, in gen¬ 
erosity, and in unselfishness. 

If you are conscious of this growth, let no lack 
of material success for one moment disturb you. 
That will come, enough for your need, in time. 

The man of symmetrically developed charac¬ 
ter is never a pauper. 

He is never dependent for more than a tem¬ 
porary period. 

To possess character is to be useful, and to 
be useful is to be independent, and to be useful 
and independent, is to be happy, even in the 
midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily 
unhappiness. 

The man who has made the development of 
a noble and harmonious character the business 
of his life, accepts his sorrows as means of greater 
growth, and finds in them an exaltation of spirit 
which is closely allied to happiness. 

To such a nature, absolute wretchedness 
would only be possible through the loss of self- 
respect; the lowering of an ideal or the failure 
of a principle. 

Would you be happy and successful? Then 
set yourself to build character . 

Seek to be worthy of your own highest com¬ 
mendation. 




THE HEART OF 


«6 


Wisdom 

REAT many people are attracted to 
the New Thought of the day, by 
its declaration of our right to ma¬ 
terial wealth, and by its claim that 
the mind of man can create, com¬ 
mand, and control conditions which 
produce wealth. 

There is no question concerning the truth of 
this claim. 

But woe unto him who cultivates his mental 
and spiritual powers only for this purpose. 

His gold shall turn to dross, his pleasure to 
Dead Sea fruit. 

He shall be as one who drags a beautiful gar¬ 
ment through the mud of the streets, and while 
clothed in purple and fine linen is yet a repulsive 
object. 

Into the Great Scheme of Existence, as first 
conceived by the Creator, money did not enter. 

He made this beautiful Universe, and all that 
it contains was meant for the enjoyment of His 
creatures. 

There was no millionaire and no pauper soul 
'created by God. 

Each soul contains the spark of the divine 
spirit, and by the realization of that spark, and all 
it means, whatever is desired by mortal man 
may come to him. 

But wise is he who remembers the injunction, 





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67 


“ Seek first the kingdom of heaven and all other 
things shall be added unto you.” 

Wise is he who understands the meaning of 
the words, “ Unto him that hath, more shall be 
given.” 

Not until you obtain the faculty of being 
happy through your spiritual and mental facul¬ 
ties, independent of material conditions, not until 
you learn to value wealth only as a means of 
helpfulness, can you safely turn your powers of 
concentration upon the idea of opulence. 

To demand, assert, and command wealth for 
its mere sensual benefits, to focus your mind 
upon it because you desire to shine, lead, and 
triumph, is to play spiritual football with spirit¬ 
ual dynamite. 

You may obtain what you seek, you may 
accumulate riches, but at the cost of all that is 
worth living for. 

The merely ignorant, or stupid, or w T holly 
material man who stumbles into a fortune, 
through inheritance, dogged persistent industry, 
or chance, may enjoy it in his own fashion, and 
do no harm in the world. 

But the man who knows and who has devel¬ 
oped his spiritual powers only for the purpose of 
commanding material gain, might better have a 
millstone tied about his neck. For he makes 
himself a spiritual outcast, and his money shall 
never bring him happiness. 

Make, therefore, your assertion of opulence 
the last in your list, as you make Love first. 




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Call unto yourself spiritual insight, absolute 
unselfishness, desire for universal good, wisdom, 
justice, and usefulness, and last of all opulence. 

Think of yourself as possessed of all these 
qualities before you picture financial independ¬ 
ence. 

For without love for your kind, without the 
desire for usefulness and the spiritual insight and 
the wisdom to be just before being generous, 
your money would bring you only temporary 
pleasure, and would do the world no good. 

Neither should you labor under the impres¬ 
sion that God’s work is lying undone because you 
have no fortune to command and wisely dis¬ 
tribute where most needed. Rest assured if you 
do the work which lies nearest to you, relieve 
such distress as is possible to you, and keep your 
faith in the ultimate justice of God’s ways, that 
the world will move on, and humanity will 
slowly attain its destined goal, even if you never 
become a millionaire. 




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69 


Self Conquest 

VERY New Idea, or supposed New 
Idea, is a light which attracts the 
moths. 

The “New Thought” is no ex¬ 
ception. 

About it flutter hysterical wo¬ 
men, unbalanced men: the erratic and the irre¬ 
sponsible 

The possibilities of performing miracles, of 
healing the sick, hypnotizing the well, trans¬ 
forming poverty into wealth, and changing age 
to youth, are the rays of light which flicker 
through the darkness and draw them into the 
circle of radiance. 

The self-indulgent fat woman subscribes to 
New Thought literature, pays for a course of 
lectures, and goes forth into the ranks of the 
unbelievers, proclaiming her power to become a 
sylph, and to cause others to become sylphs. 

The extravagant and inconsiderate rush forth 
after having heard a discourse upon the power 
of mind over matter, and declare that they 
possess the secret of accumulating a fortune by 
occult means. 

The lovers of the marvelous believe that they 
will become great healers in a brief space of time. 

Not one of these moth converts realizes that 
the very first step to take in the direction of 
“New Thought” is self-conquest. 










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THE IIEAET OF 


The gourmand does not know that self-indul¬ 
gence and a gross appetite are incompatible with 
mental or spiritual growth, and will be insur¬ 
mountable obstacl es in her path toward symmetry. 

The spendthrift does not take into considera¬ 
tion the fact that good sense, thrift and industry, 
must aid his mental assertion of wealth, and the 
miracle lover does not understand that some¬ 
thing greater and more difficult is required than 
a mere wish to heal before healing powers can 
be obtained. 

That the physical body and material condi¬ 
tions can be dominated by the divine spirit in 
man, is an incontrovertible fact. 

But first, last and always, the lesser self must 
be subjugated, and the weak and unworthy 
qualities overcome. 

The woman who desires to reduce her flesh 
cannot do so by reading occult literature, or 
joining mystic circles, or attending lectures, 
unless she permeates herself so thoroughly with 
spiritual truths that she no longer craves six 
courses at dinner, and three meals a day, and 
unless she overcomes her dislike for exercise. 

The man who wishes to control circum¬ 
stances must love better things than money 
before he can succeed. He must love, and 
respect, and believe in his Creator, and trust the 
Divine Man within himself, and he must illust¬ 
rate this love and trust by his daily conduct, and 
in his home circle, and in his business relations. 




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71 


Once in a century, perhaps, is a man born with 
great powers already developed to heal the sick, 
or to do other seeming miracles. Such beings 
are old souls, who have obtained diplomas in 
former lives; but the majority of us are still in 
school, and we cannot become “seniors” until we 
pass through the lower grades. 

We must change ourselves before we can 
change material conditions: we must heal our 
own thoughts and make them sane and normal, 
before we can heal bodily disease in others. 

It is not an immediate process. I have heard 
an old lady declare that she “got religion” in 
the twinkling of an eye, and she believed all 
people would be damned and burn in hell fire, 
who did not pass through this sudden illumina¬ 
tion. 

It is possible that the religion which can wor¬ 
ship a God cruel enough to burn his children in 
fire, can only be obtained in the twinkling of an 
eye; but the reverent, wholesome, and beautiful 
religion of “New Thought” must be grown into 
little by little, through patience, faith, and 
practice. 

All that it claims to do it can do, but not 
instantaneously, not rapidly. We must first 
make ourselves over; after absolute control of 
our minds has been obtained, then, and only then, 
may we hope to influence circumstances and 
health. 




72 


THE HEAET OF 


The Important Trifles 

1W OIJ will find, in the effort to reach a 
higher spirituality in your daily 
life, that the small things try your 
patience and your strength more 
than the greater ones. 

Home life, like business life, is 
composed of an accumulation of trifles. 

There are people who bear great sorrows with 
resignation, and seem to gain a certain dignity 
and force of character through trouble, but who 
are utterly vanquished by trivial annoyances. 

The old-fashioned orthodox “Christian” was 
frequently of this order. 

Death, poverty, and misfortune he bore with¬ 
out complaining, and became ofttimes a more 
agreeable companion in times of deepest sorrow. 

He regarded all such experiences as the will 
of God, and bowed to them. 

Yet, if his dinner was late, his coffee below the 
standard, if his eye-glasses were misplaced, or his 
toe trodden upon, he became a raging lion, and 
his roar drove his affrighted household into dark 
corners. 

There have been neighborhood Angels, who 
watched beside the dying sinner, sustained or¬ 
phans and widows, and endured great troubles 
sublimely like martyrs. But if a dusty shoe trod 
upon a freshly washed floor, or husband or child 
came tardily to the breakfast-table, or lingered 




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78 


outside the door after regulation hour for retir¬ 
ing—lo, the Angel became a virago, or a droning 
mosquito with persistent sting. 

The New Philosophy demands serenity and 
patience through small trials, as well as forti¬ 
tude in meeting life’s larger ills. 

It demands, too, that we seek to avoid giving 
others unnecessary irritation by a thoughtless 
disregard of the importance of trifles. 

A man is more likely to keep calm if he 
wakes in the night and discovers that the house 
is on fire, than he is if, on being fully prepared to 
retire, he finds the only mug on the third story 
is missing from his wash-stand, or the cake of 
toilet-soap he asked for the day before has been 
forgotten. 

A mother bears the affliction of a crippled 
child with more equanimity than she is able to 
bring to bear upon the continual thoughtlessness 
of a strong one. 

To be kind, means to be thoughtful. 

The kindest and most loving heart will some¬ 
times forget and be careless; but it cannot be 
perpetually forgetful and careless of another’s 
wishes and needs, even in the merest trifles. 




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Concentration 

3 "* HE New Thought includes concentra - 
^ tion of thought, in its teaching; and 
\ he who learns that important art is 
gfr' not liable to frequently forget small 
or large duties. 

It is he who scatters, instead of 
concentrates his mind powers, who keeps him¬ 
self and others in a state of continual irritation 
by forgetting, mislaying, and losing, three 
petty vices which do much to mar domestic or 
business life. 

Concentration is a most difficult acquirement 
for the mature mind which has been allowed to 
grow in the habit of thought scattering. 

Wise is the mother, and as sure as wise, 
who teaches her child to finish each task begun 
before attempting another, for that is the first 
step in concentration. 

Prentice Mulford, that great and good pioneer 
in the field of practical New Thought, tells us to 
apply our whole mental powers to whatever we 
do, even if it is merely the tying of a shoe, and 
to think of nothing else until that shoe is tied, 
then to utte y forget the shoe string, when we 
turn to another duty or employment. The next 
lesson in concentration he gives us, is to repeat 
the word often, to impress it upon the mind. 

And then to declare each day +hat “ Concen¬ 
tration is mine ” will aid still farther in the 







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75 


acquisition of this great and important quality. 

Meanwhile, since we can be so fortunate as 
to always surround ourselves with others who 
have acquired it, the student of the Higher Phil¬ 
osophy must learn to be serene and self-poised 
when he encounters life’s pigmy worries. 

He must carry his religion into his bedroom 
and his office, and not forget it utterly when he 
loses his collar-button, or misses his car, or finds 
his office boy has taken a parcel to the wrong 
address. 

To build character necessitates a constant 
watch upon ourselves. The New Thought is not 
a religion of Sundays, but of every day. 




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THE HEAKT OF 


Destiny 

EVER say that you wish your situa¬ 
tion were different! Never wish 
you had some other person’s life or 
troubles or worries. 

Accept your own as a working 
basis , the best for you. 

Then go ahead and change whatever displeases 
you. 

Remember you are the maker and moulder of 
your own destiny. You do not recall the fact, 
but you brought about the present conditions of 
your destiny in former incarnations. 

Even if you do not believe this, you must 
acknowledge that you are here, and that the situ¬ 
ation in which you find yourself seems to be 
inevitable for the present. 

But it is not inevitable for the future, unless 
you lie down in the furrow and whine, and wish 
you were a millionaire, or a genius, and rail at 
the partiality of Providence. 

There is no partiality in the Universe. 

The wdiole scheme is well balanced. If you 
were allowed to change lots with anyone on the 
face of the earth, you would complain and find 
fault in a short time. 

One of our best known millionaires, born to 
opulence, complains that he has been robbed of 
the privilege of making his own fortune. 

He is no happier than you. His confession 






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77 


betrays his weakness of character just as your 
repining and fault-finding betrays yours. 

The real worth-while character thanks God 
for its destiny and says, “I will show the world 
what I can do with my life. ,> 

Not long ago there was a great trotting-race 
at Brighton Beach. The blind conquerer “Ryth¬ 
mic” won five consecutive races. 

Think of it! He did not, like a mortal man, 
shrink back and say “ T am blind—that is a ter¬ 
rible destiny—I am cursed of God—I will not 
try to win the race.’* He just trusted the hand 
of the Master at the reins , did his best and won 
the honors of the season. 

We are all blind racers on the track of earth. 
The king, the millionaire, the statesman, the 
law-maker, the beggar, the laborer, the cripple, 
we are all in the dark. The only thing is to 
trust the hand of the Master, and do our best . 

Believe your position is the right starting 
point for you , merely the starting point. 

It is the shapeless block of stone from which 
you are to fashion the perfect statue. 

Or it is the mere mud from which you are to 
mould the clay image, and later that is to be put 
into enduring marble. 

What is uglier or more unattractive than 
mud? 

Yet think of the glorious conceptions which 
it imprisons. 

Take the mud of your present environment 




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and thank God for it, and make the image of the 
future you desire. 

You can do it—you must do it—you will do 


it. 




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79 


Sympathy 

RE you of a sympathetic nature? 

If so, do not let your sympathies 
help to add to the world’s miseries. 

That may seem a strange ex¬ 
pression, but it can be explained if 
you will listen. 

Much of the misery in the world is the result 
of imagination. 

All of it is the result of selfishness and ignor¬ 
ance. 

But hundreds and thousands of people believe 
themselves sick, sorrowful and poverty stricken, 
who would be well, glad and prosperous, if they 
only thought themselves so. 

Every time you pour out your sympathy upon 
these self-made sufferers, you add to their burden 
of wrong thought, and make it just so much 
more difficult for them to rise out of their 
troubles. 

I do not believe all the misfortune in the 
world is caused by wrong thinking in this life, or 
can be done away with by right thinking. The 
three-year-old child who toddles in front of a 
trolley car and loses a leg, while the tired mother 
is bending over the washtub to keep the wolf of 
hunger at bay, cannot be blamed for wrong 
thinking as the cause of its trouble. Neither can 
the deaf mute or the child born blind or 
deformed. We must go farther back, to former 
lives, to find the first cause of such misfortunes. 





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No “ New Thought,” no amount of optimistic 
theology or philosophy can restore the child’s 
leg, or ears, or eyes. It is utter nonsense to say 
that miracles like these can be performed. 

There are scores of individuals whom we 
meet handicapped in life’s race by such dire 
calamities that we spontaneously pour forth our 
sympathy. 

But, even to these, it were kinder and wiser 
to give diverting thoughts, and a new outlook, 
and to open up avenues for pleasure, and enter¬ 
tainment, and profit, in place of tears and con¬ 
dolence. 

Sympathy, without alleviating actions to a 
sufferer, is like a cloud without rain to the 
parched earth. 

But the great majority of people whom we 
encounter are making their own crosses, and we 
who offer them sympathy, and condolence, are 
but adding to the burden’s weight. 

I do not recommend coldness, indifference, or 
ridicule as a substitute for sympathy. But 
instead of leading the sick man on to tell you 
the details of his illness, and to describe all his 
symptoms, while your own body responds with 
sympathetic aches and pains as you listen, it is 
kinder to divert his attention to some cheerful 
and merry topic, or to refer to some case like his 
own which resulted in perfect restoration to 
health. Instead of going down into hlj under¬ 
ground cave of depression, bring him out into 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


81 


the wholesome sunlight of your own healthful 
state, even if for a moment only, and impress 
upon his mind that health belongs to him, and 
must return to him. 

To the man in business trouble the same 
advice applies. 

Tell him you are sorry for him, but do not 
take on his despondency to prove it. 

Talk of the future and all the possibilities it 
holds for a determined man or woman. 

Make him laugh. Speak of trouble as the 
gymnasium where our moral muscles are devel¬ 
oped. Answer him that everything he desires is 
his if he will be persistent and determined in 
demanding his own. If you put force in your 
words you will leave an impression. 

Do not go away from the house of trouble in 
tears, but leave the troubled ones you called upon 
smiling as you depart. 

That is true sympathy. 




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THE HEART OF 


The Breath 

MAN reproved me for my interest in 
New Thought creeds. 

"The old religion I learned at 
my mother’s knee is good enough 
for me!” he said. "It is good 
enough for anjdbody!” 

Yet this man’s mother had always "enjoyed 
poor health,” as the old lady expressed it, and 
the man himself was forever talking of his dis¬ 
eases, his ill luck, his poverty, which he said he 
had been enabled to endure only through the 
sustaining power of the religion "learned at his 
mother’s knee.” 

It would be difficult to convince the man 
that had his mother taught him the creed of the 
"New Religion” he could have changed all these 
unfortunate conditions. 

Life-long ill health would have been impos¬ 
sible for his mother, or for him. 

The old fashioned religion allowed and still al¬ 
lows a human being to breathe like a canary bird. 

Little children go to Sunday-School all their 
young lives, and grow up to be devout church 
members, and never hear one word about the 
importance of deep breathing. 

Possibly you may think breathing lessons 
belong to physical culture, and have no place in 
religious teachings. 

There is where you err. 






THE NEW THOUGHT 


83 


In order to develop your whole being, you 
must learn how to control body and mind 
through the spirit. 

Thousands of years ago, men who gave their 
entire lives to the study of these things learned 
the great importance of deep breathing as an aid 
to religious meditation. 

By this practice, systematically observed, the 
body is calmed, the mind is brought into subjec¬ 
tion, and the spirit rises into control. 

And in addition, absolute health is achieved. 

A large portion of our physical ailments 
result from unused lung cells, and consequent 
imperfect circulation of the blood. 

Fill the lungs full—every cell—with fresh 
air, two or three times daily, and do not over¬ 
load the digestive organs, and sickness will fly 
away to the dark regions where it belongs. 

At least ten minutes morning and night 
should be given to the breathing exercises. 

Sit upright in a comfortable chair, alone, fac¬ 
ing the east in the morning and the west at 
night, because great magnetic force comes from 
the direction of the sun. 

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outer air. 

Place your hands lightly on your knees, and 
close your eyes and mouth. Leave your spine 
free, not touching the chair. Wear no compress¬ 
ing garments or bands. 

Inflate the chest and abdominal regions as 




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THE HEART OF 


you inhale deep breaths through the nostrils, 
while counting seven slowly. 

Exhale while you count seven. Repeat this 
exercise seven times. 

Think as you inhale of whatever qualities you 
would like to possess, and believe that you are 
inhaling them. Select seven qualities—Love, 
Health, Wisdom, Usefulness, Power to Do Good, 
Success, Opulence—will cover the average human 
desires. The very unworldly will substitute 
spiritual knowledge for opulence. Fill your 
mind with the idea that you are drawing in these 
qualities with your breaths, and exhaling all 
that is weak or unworthy. After a few moments 
you will be conscious of a security and peace 
new and uplifting. 

And after a few weeks of steady, persistent 
practice of these exercises, you will find life 
growing more beautiful to you, and your strength 
will be increased tenfold, both physically and 
spiritually. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


85 


Generosity 



AYE you ever observed bow invari¬ 
ably your “ last dollar ” is restored 
to you, with additions, when you 
have given it for some worthy pur¬ 
pose? 


Even if the purpose did not 


prove to be a worthy one, yet if you thought it 
so, and gave your last dollar with spontaneous 
sympathy and good will, you were not long left 
penniless. 

Money is much like a man. If you do not 
hold it too jealously it returns to you the more 
readily. 

Never hesitate to give aid where you feel 
there is sore and pressing need, for fear you will 
be left in want yourself. You will not be. 

This does not mean that indiscriminate char¬ 
ity is commendable. It does not mean that you 
should lend money to everyone who asks, or lift 
and carry the burdens of everyone who is ready 
to lean upon you. 

It is as wrong to encourage the man addicted 
to the vice of borrowing, as the one with the 
vice of alcohol or drugs. 

One depends upon his acquaintances to tide 
him over hard places, instead of upon his own 
strength of character, and the other depends 
upon stimulants for the same purpose. The too 
ready lender is almost as great an evil to human- 







86 


THE HEART OF 


ity as mm or opium, since he too helps a man to 
kill his own better nature and destroy his self- 
respect. 

If you were able and willing to pay rents of 
all the poor people you know, and clothe their 
children, you would soon produce a condition of 
settled pauperism among them. Large and fre¬ 
quent favors of a financial nature are an injury 
to anyone, even if it is your son or brother. 

Let no man lean on anyone save God and his 
own divine self. 

But little helps, when they are unexpected, 
arouse hope and awaken new faith and new 
ambition in a discouraged soul. 

Look about you for such souls, the worn and 
weary father of a brood of hungry children, the 
widow struggling with adverse fate in an effort 
to clothe and educate a child, the tired shop girl 
who uses all her earnings to sustain her parents, 
the ambitious boy or girl eager for a chance in 
life, and the poor cripple or invalid seeking 
health. You will find them all about you. Do 
not be afraid to use a dollar here or there to 
give these worthy ones a happy surprise, no 
matter how poor you are. 

It is an insult to the Opulent Creator to sup¬ 
pose you will suffer want and poverty if you help 
those who are in temporary misfortune. 

You will not. 

Ofttimes we read and hear of the open-handed 
generous man who “helped everybody,” and who 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


87 


“ never refused to aid a needy brother,” and who 
ended his life in penury because of his generosity. 

Never believe these tales until you investigate 
them. Invariably you will find not generosity 
but extravagance and utter lack of forethought, 
caused the man's financial ruin. 

I recall a gifted young woman who gave freely 
to all who asked her assistance and who died a 
lingering death as a charity patient in a hospital. 

Yet this young woman had expended ten dol¬ 
lars on foolish and rapid living where she gave 
one in charity; it was her wasteful extravagance, 
not her open heart of sympathy, which made her 
a pauper. 

It has been my observation that dollars 
planted in the soil of benevolence grow into har¬ 
vests of prosperity. The man who is not afraid 
to use his small means to assist others need not 
fear* poverty. 




88 


THE HEART OF 



Woman’s Opportunity 

1 HE greatest opportunity to better the 
world which can come to any wo¬ 
man is through the experience of 
maternity. 

The power of prenatal influence 
which a mother possesses is awe¬ 
inspiring to realize. 

It has been said upon excellent authority that 
Napoleon’s mother read Roman history with 
absorbing interest during the months preceding 
his birth. 

Think of the nations and the centuries influ¬ 
enced by that one woman’s mental concentration! 
The geography of the world was changed by her 
power of focused thought. 

In all probability Napoleon’s mother did not 
know what she was doing; she was not conscious 
of the destiny her mind was shaping for her 
unborn child, nor of the law governing such 
conditions. 

Women have been strangely ignorant of this 
vital truth; until recent years it has not been 
considered a “ proper ” theme for tongue or pen, 
and to-day the great majority of young women 
marry absolutely uninformed upon the subject of 
prenatal influence. 

Men are equally oblivious of any knowledge 
regarding the matter, and consequently make no 
special effort to keep the expectant mother of 






THE NEW THOUGHT 


89 


their offspring happy, hopeful, or free of anxiety 
and worry during this period. Often they do not 
strive to aid them in their own attempts to 
bestow a desirable temperament upon the unborn 
child, but heedlessly and needlessly aggravate or 
grieve the mind which is stamping its impress 
upon an unborn soul. 

It is just here that the “ New Thought” can 
perform its greatest miracles of good. 

Even the woman who has not been enlight¬ 
ened upon the law of ante-birth-influence will, 
if a true disciple of the Religion of Right-living, 
bring healthy and helpful children into the 
world, because her normal state of mind will be 
inclusive of those three qualities; and her contin¬ 
ued and repeated assertions of her own divine 
nature will shape the brain of her child in opti¬ 
mistic and reverential mould. 

There is the old law of the continual falling 
of the drop of water upon the stone to be verified 
in the spiritual plane. Continual assertions of a 
mother that her child will be all that she desires 
it to be, will wear away the stone of inherited 
tendencies, and bring into physical being a mal¬ 
leable nature wholly amenable to the after influ¬ 
ences and efforts she may bring to bear upon it. 

It is a tremendous responsibility which rests 
upon the woman who knows she is to be a mother 
of a human being. 

A hundred ancestors may have contributed 
certain qualities to that invisible and formless 




90 


THE HEART OF 


atom which contains an immortal soul, yet the 
mother’s mind has the power to remake and 
rebuild all those characteristics, and to place over 
them her own dominating impulse, whether for 
good or ill. 

Surely, if success in the arts or the sciences is 
worthy of years of devoted attention and inter¬ 
ested effort, the moulding of a noble human 
being is worth eight or nine months of concen¬ 
trated thought and unflagging zeal of purpose. 

Every expectant mother should set herself 
aoout the important business God has entrusted 
her with, unafraid, and confident of her divine 
mission. She should direct her mind into whole¬ 
some and optimistic channels; she should read 
inspiring books and think loving and large 
thoughts. She should pray and aspire! and 
always should she carry in her mind the ideal of 
the child she would mother, and command from 
the great Source of all Opulence the qualities 
she would desire to perpetuate. 

And they will be given. 




THE NEW THOUGHT 


91 


Balance 

VOID all strained and abstruse lan 
guage, when conversing with peo¬ 
ple who may not have entered this 
realm of thought. 

Do not allow anyone to think of 
you as a lunatic, or a crank, un¬ 
necessarily. Of course there are people in the 
world who consider everyone a lunatic who holds 
an opinion differing from their own. 

But it can do you, or your philosophy, no good 
to thrust its most difficult phases before the 
minds of the unawakened, by vague and high 
flown expressions. 

I once chanced to fcall upon a lady who had, 
quite unknown to me, entered upon the study of 
Christian Science. 

She remarked to me, almost as soon as the 
greetings were exchanged, “I had a claim to meet 
for three days this week, but I have come through 
it and am victorious. 

I supposed the lady referred to some business 
matter, perhaps a legal affair, and waited an 
explanation. 

After considerable rambling conversation, I 
managed to grasp the fact that the woman had 
been sick in the house three days, but now was 
well. She considered her illness a mere “claim” 
her “mortal mind” had made which she had to 
meet and combat. 





92 


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All this sort of talk is very ridiculous. We 
need not talk about every ailment which attacks 
us as we move along toward the condition of per¬ 
fect health which belongs to us ! But if we do 
speak of indisposition, let us use common sense 
language. 

What we want to realize is, that we are in 
the body, but that the spirit can control bodily 
conditions, if we give it the ascendency, to the 
extent of keeping us well, moral, useful, and 
comfortable even in the midst of sickness, vice, 
indolence and poverty. 

We can rise above these false elements, and 
subjugate them. 

Meanwhile we cannot live without food, 
clothes and money. 

Despise and ignore these vulgar things as we 
may assume to do, we yet must have them. 

It brings only ridicule upon ourselves and our 
ideas to make this pretense of despising the 
necessities of life. 

To make them secondary in our thoughts to 
spiritual knowledge is right and wise, but this is 
better illustrated by our lives and conduct than 
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